The Moving City. Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure, Paperback - Rashmi Sadana

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Rashmi SadanaIllustration(s): 25 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 274Publication date: 2021Dim...

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An original and compelling account of the social nature of music and its interplay with the wider society to which it belongs. Crossley explores th...

An original and compelling account of the social nature of music and its interplay with the wider society to which it belongs. Crossley explores th...

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In contemporary Manila, slums and squatter settlements are peppered throughout the city, often pushing right up against the walled enclaves of the ...

A journey through the evolution of Britain's prehistoric landscape, and an insight into the lives of its inhabitants, in fifteen scenes.Illustratio...

Questions about the nature of money have gained a new urgency in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Even as many people have less of it,...

Reducere. In this theoretically sophisticated study of indigenous oral narratives, Julie Cruikshank moves beyond the text to explore the social significance ...

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Hatim El-Hibri explores how the creation and circulation of images has shaped the urban spaces and cultural imaginaries of Beirut, showing how imag...

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Reducere. Waste Siege offers an analysis unusual in the study of Palestine: it depicts the environmental, infrastructural, and aesthetic context in which Pal...

Keith Floyd's exuberant personality, as much as his cooking skills, has made him a favourite both as bestselling author and as television presenter...

Reducere. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Bridgin...

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The Social Life of Greylag Geese: Patterns, Mechanisms and Evolutionary Function in an Avian Model System - Isabella B. R. Scheiber, Brigitte M. Weib,

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Literary Nonfiction. Jewish Studies. THE BUTTON THIEF OF EAST 14TH STREET: SCENES FROM A LIFE ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE 1927-1957 is Fay Webern's mast...

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Publisher: Vitra Design MuseumAuthor(s): Susan FreinkelIllustration(s): 80 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 140Publication date: 2022Dime...

Reducere. From the Wall Street Journal's opera critic, a wide-ranging narrative history of how and why the New York City Opera went bankrupt--and what it mea...

A visual love-letter to New York City which features works by major artists from the 19th and 20th centuries.Publisher: D Giles LtdIllustration(s):...

DescriptionInfrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene explores life in the age of climate change through a series of infrastructural...

The book provides the basis, methodological framework, current state, and first comprehensive analysis of the function of the European Programme fo...

Few of us consider how mundane infrastructures-from electrical grids to sewage systems-have developed over millennia in ways that enable democracy,...

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